Adjustable tongue-hound.



F. J. DULTMEIER.

ADJUSTABLE TONGUE HOUND.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 25. x917.

1,281,311. Patented. 0011.15, 1918.

Qua/7 W/S:

FRANK J. DULTMEIER, 0F MANNING, IOWA.

ADJUSTABLE TONGUE-HOUND.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 15, 1918.

Application filed June 25, 1917. Serial No. 176,892.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK J. DULTMEIER, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Manning, in the county of Carroll and State of Iowa, have invented a certain new and useful Adjustable Tongue-Hound, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an adjustable tongue hound of simple, durable and inexpensive construction.

A further object is to provide an adjustable tongue hound having hound members, with means for adjustably connecting the same with the rear end of a tongue for rigidly supporting the hound members in a variety of adjusted positions.

An especial object is to provide means for connecting said hound members with the tongue which may be means made of minimum weight and amount of material, and at the same time may very rigidly support said hound members against any up and down movement.

With these and other objects in view my invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of the various parts of the device whereby the objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in my claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 shows a top plan view of an adj ustable hound embodying my invention, installed on a tongue, part of the tongue being shown in section, and

Fig. 2 shows a rear elevation of the same.

In the accompanying drawings, I have used the reference numeral 10 to indicate generally the rear end of a wagon tongue or thelike. The tongue is provided near its rear end with a transverse opening 11 to receive a queen bolt 12.

Secured to the sides of the tongue 10 opposite each other and spaced from the rear end of the tongue are plates 13 secured together and to the tongue 10 by means of bolts 14 and nuts 15.

The plates or strips 13 are bent or curved at their rear ends to form bearings 16.

Arranged spaced from the tongue on opposite sides thereof and rearwardly from the plates '13 are opposite adjustable hound members 17. Each hound member is provided near its forward end with a vertical opening to receive a bolt 18. For each hound member 17 there is provided a pair of connecting links 19, the rear ends of which overlap the forward ends of the hound members above and below said members, respectively, as shown in the drawings.

Each pair of links 19 is secured at its for ward ends by means of a bolt 20 extending through a bearing 16, whereby the links are pivotally mounted on the plates 13.

The bolt 18 extends through the rearward ends of the pairs of links 19, and through the openings in the forward ends of the hound members 17.

The clamp device is mounted on the tongue between the forward ends of the hound members 17, as indicated at 21.

Each clamp member 21 is arranged to rest on top of, or on the lower surface of the tongue and is arranged to project laterally beyond the tongue, as clearly shown in the drawings. 1

Each clamp member 21 is provided near its ends with lugs 22 designed to project vertically alongside of the tongue 10, and engage said sides for preventing lateral movement of the clamp members on the tongue, and also for preventing any twisting movement of the clamp members on the tongue.

Extended through the opposite ends of each of the pairs of clamp. members 21 are bolts 22, such as have been mentioned. Braces 23 are provided for connecting the respective clamp members 21 with the hound members 17. Each brace 23 has at its inner end a short horizontal portion overlapping one of the clamp members 21 and provided with an opening for receiving one of the bolts 22*.

The hound members 17 are of considerably less thickness from top to bottom than the tongue 10, and the braces 23 are provided inclined from their inner ends outwardly and toward the hound members 17 and are formed at their outer ends with short horizontal portions to engage the bottom and top, respectively of the hound members.

The outer ends of the braces 23, receive bolts 18.

Mounted on the tongue 10 rearwardly of .the clamp 21 are similar clamps 24:. In the rear of each hound member 17 I provide a plurality of laterally spaced vertical openings 25. Mounted on the outer surface of each hound member 17 is a protecting plate 26. Mounted on the inner surface of the rear end of each hound member 17 is a comparatively shorter plate 27. Bolts 28 are extended through the plates 26 and 27 and through v the hound members 17 for securing said parts together. Bolts 29 are selectively received in the openings 25. The

clamp members at are connected with the rear ends of the hound members 17 and with the bolts 29 by braces 30, similar in construction and installation to the braces 28, except the braces 30 are slightly longer than the braces 28. i

The inner ends of the braces 30 are con nected with the clamp members 24: by means of bolts 22 similar to those already described.

In the practical use of my improved adjustable tongue hound, the hounds 17 may be adjusted laterally and their opposite ends may be adjusted laterally with relation to each other, by loosening the nuts on the bolts 2 2 and sliding the clamp members 21 and 24 longitudinally on the tongue 10.

Further adjustment is permitted by the selective mounting of the bolts 29 in different holes 25. It should be mentioned perhaps that the holes in the hound members 17 through which the queen bolt 12 extends are horizontally elongated to permit the proper adjustment of the hound members 17.

It will be seen that the construction here shown permits a great variety of adjustmentfor the hound members for making it possible to fit my improved tongue hound to wagon hounds of different makes and sizes.

It will be noted that the parts may be very rigidly and firmly connected against lateral movement by simply tightening the nuts on the various bolts. One of the special advantages of the form of my hound shown herein, arises from the use of the pairs of clamps 23' and 30, whereby the tongue hounds are supported against any vertical or twisting movement, much more rigidly than where a single armis extended from the hound member 17 to the tongue.

It will be noted that the construction here shown is somewhat the form of a double truss.

Some changes may be made in the construction and arrangement of the parts of my improved tongue hound without departing from the essential features and purposes of my invention, and it is my intention to cover by the claims of the patent to be issued hereon, any modified forms of structure or use of mechanical equivalents whic h iGopies of this patent may be obtained for may be included within the scope of my claims.

-- I claim as my invention:

1. In a device of the class described, the combination of a tongue, a pair of tongue hound members spaced therefrom on opposite sides thereof, a pair of links overlapping the" forward end of each hound member above and below said hound member and extending forwardly and pivoted "at their forward ends to the tongue, forward and rearward pairs of clamps mounted on said tongue, a pair of spaced braces arranged to overlap the ends of the forward pair of i clamp members, and means for pivoting the outer ends of the'rearwa'rd braces to the rearward ends of said hound members.

In a device. of the class described, the combination of a tongue, plates on the sides thereof having bearings, bolts in said bearings, a pair of tongue hound members spaced from thetongue on opposite sides thereof, a pair of links overlapping the forward end of each houndmember above and below said hound member, and extending forwardly and pivoted at their forward ends to" the tongue by said bolts, pairs'o'f clamps mounted on said tongue, a pair of spaced braces arranged to overlap the ends of theforward pair 'of clamps on each side of the tongue, means for pivotally connecting the 'outer ends of said pair of braces and the rear ends ofsaid links and the forward ends of said hound members, braces having their inner ends overlapping and pivoted to the ends of the rear clamp members, a bolt for pivoting the outer ends of the rearward clamp members to the rearward ends of said hound members, said hound members being of considerably less vertical thickness than said tongue, said braces being inclined from their outer ends upwardly and downwardly in the respective pairs of braces for forming truss members, plates on the outer and inner surfaces of the hounds. 7

Des Moines, Iowa, May 1, 1916.

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